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High Desert Museum: Bird Sculpture by Daniel McQuestion
The
sculpture, a Prairie Falcon, is on a long-term loan for the Raptors of the
Desert Sky Exhibit. This new exhibit, that includes live Hawks, Eagles,
Falcons and Owls opens on July 7, 2001. ...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: Leon Golub: Paintings 1950 - 2000
His early work used primitive, generic imagery to explore the human
condition, but his later work became more direct and political with subjects ranging from the Vietnam
War to racism and r...
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum: Birds in Art: Lifts Off in Annual Salute to All Things Avian
This year the answer can be found in 124 different works created by artists who explore the world of birds as a rich mother lode for satisfying their imagination and observational skills. They investigate color and form, shape and pattern, realism...
National Gallery: Light
The first section, Symbolic Light, contains works in which light takes on a metaphorical meaning, such as the Gallery’s 'Adoration of the Shepherds' by Rembrandt and the rarely seen 'After the Deluge; the Forty-First Day' by G. F. Watts (Guildfor...
San Diego Museum of Art: Cerca Series: Helen Altman
Four works from Altman's latest series of moving blankets demonstrate her ability to capture the vulnerability of common creatures in larger-than-life reproductions of isolated animals. Altman's thermal-painted canvases sewn into moving blankets u...
San Bernardino County Museum, Fisk Gallery: Brian Prescott: Photographs from A Bird's Eye View
Prescott has been to five continents to see more than 1,500 species of birds, and he has photographed more than 1,000 of them. He has traveled to the four corners of North America, and into the Yukon and Northwest Territory of Canada. He has visit...
Museums Sheffield: Millennium Gallery: Timorous Beasties presents A Bird in the Hand
Timorous Beasties presents A Bird in the Hand will see the designers embrace and subvert the traditional Victorian aesthetics of the 19th century to surreal and provocative effect. Completely transforming the gallery, Timorous Beasties’ brand new ...
Index - Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation: Henrik Hakansson: Comments on Spring
Henrik Håkansson’s film, Nightingale From Dusk Till Dawn (2003) portrays the nightingale, a bird that according to popular legend is as easy to hear as it is hard to see. However, by filming the bird at night with a simple, hand-held camera includ...
Platform China: Trap – Wang Wei’s Installation Exhibition
Wang Wei’s Installation “Trap” carries on the artist’s exploration of physical and metaphysical architecture. In this new work Wang Wei reproduces a colossal and intricate jungle combining a blown up wooden bird trap with strategically placed scaf...
Photographer's Gallery: Jean-Luc Mylayne
Mylayne's work bears little relation to the images of
wildlife photographers, although he has, by necessity,
a deep knowledge of ornithology. He does not pursue
his prey with a telephoto lens, and is not searching for
the exotic or the unu...
Te Papa: ST@RT_UP
The exhibition includes the world premiere of the major new work by one of
the most important new media artists of our time - American Bill Seaman.
Hybrid Invention Generator is an interactive video work where visitors will
be able to select kn...
MOCA, the Museum of Computer Art: Digital Art Site Awards $1000 Prize
MOCA was formed in 1993. MOCA is the main or one of the top digital art sites in US, and the world. (Funny, almost nobody talks of computer art now, as they did when the site was formed. Now the site would likely be called MODA.)
Don Archer...
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art: STRANGERS and PARADISE: Oladele Ajiboye Bamgboye, Nasrin Tabatabai, Gediminas Urbonas
Oladele Ajiboye Bamgboye Works 1991-2000
The exhibition of the works by Oladele Ajiboye Bamgboye (Nigeria - UK) presents for
the first time a large selection of his photo- and videoworks...
Rossi and Rossi: Zhou Jun – Bird’s Nest Project
Zhou Jun’s work emerges from construction sites and testifies to his ambivalent feelings about the exciting expansion of Chinese cities that inevitably erodes and subverts traditional architecture. He has developed his own unique narrative langua...
Kunstraum Innsbruck: Bird Flu: Stefano Cagol
The couples of words are: Art Flu, Ass Flu, Politics Flu, Money Flu, Opinion Flu, TV Flu, Dead Flu, Love Flu, Tami Flu, Bird Flu, Star Flu, Peace Flu, Dog Flu, Toy Flu, Sex Flu, Techno Flu, Angel Flu, Boy Flu, War Flu, Religion Flu, Gun Flu, Pig F...
MICHAEL C.CARLOS MUSEUM: Karel Appel: Form Becomes Vibration
In Appel s 1970s work he
continued to use his favored childlike motifs masks, faces, animals but he
adopted a new manner of expression using thick parallel strokes of vivid,
con...
Beijing Jialuan Art House / Changqing Art Fund: Call for Artists: BIRD 2005 International Art Award at Beijing Natural Culture Center
Among the more than 9000 varieties of birds that populate the earth, 1329, nearly 1/8 of total species exist in China. China has one of the world's largest bird populations and a lot of endangered bird species are peculiar to China. However, with ...
Paul Rodgers/9W Gallery: Joe Diebes: Premonitions
Striking visual and conceptual cues anchor the exhibition, while sound animates the space from all directions. In Aviary, empty bird cages communicate throughout the gallery in otherworldly tones created from digitally altered bird calls. sotto vo...
Thavibu Gallery: Ideals and Imagination: Work by Netikorn Chinyo
The power of the artist's mind and imagination, combined with his rich experiences is used to create paintings, mostly in black and white and with gold leaf, related to emotions and traditions. He has participated in numerous art shows in Bangko...
Engel Gallery: 2000 - A Glance Towards the Next Millennium
The works tell us not only of how each artist views the cultural, social and political aspects, but of their specific point of view - whether
optimistic or pessimistic - as to what the next century or millennium holds in sto...
Agora Gallery: Abstract Perspectives: Featuring Paintings by Adrien Asselin
Asselin considers himself a simple seismograph, a witness to contemporary events, an interpreter of a life underlying life, where art is defined with each moment, each of which breathes into him a new inspiration.
Adrien Asselin has shown in...
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art: Johannes Larsen and Bruno Liljefors: Life in Nature
Both Johannes Larsen and Bruno Liljefors were hunters and outdoorsmen, and they regarded man as a constituent element of nature. Unlike their predecessors at the Academy, they portrayed nature without any religious significance or moral attitude. ...
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane: SELF: Contemporary Indian Video Art
Pijnappel states, " Their search is a fundamental self – questioning. How to
live with traditional cultural values? How to liberate yourself as a woman?
How to face ongoing ethnic problems? How to position yourself? Theirs is a
search for a new...
Orlando Museum of Art: Lure of the West: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Later in the century,
other artists such as Albert
Bierstadt and Thomas
...
Bartley Nees Gallery: Fiona Pardington: Fugitive Beings
Yet this is not simply an anthropomorphic exercise, humanising through a project of portraiture. Rather we see an essence abstracted. Employing the discipline of the photographic still life, which has long been a feature of her practice, Pardingto...
Joan Miro Foundation: Sunflower
This idea of transformation is fundamental to his entire work, and the fact of converting a work of art – traditionally an aesthetic object destined only to be looked at – into an inhabitable object with a specific function reveals his capacity fo...
National Gallery of Canada: Close-Ups: Prints and Drawings by PUDLO PUDLAT
Pudlo Pudlat (1916-1992) used drawing as a means of thinking on paper. Those
thoughts frequently explored the themes of architecture, technology and transportation
as they related to the changing North. However, even at the earliest stages of ...
Bartley Nees Gallery: Sean Kerr: New Media
In addition to this new show at the Bartley Nees Gallery, Seans work is on show with other leading artists from around the world in the new ST@RT UP exhibition at Te Papa where he has deconstructed Don Binneys classic frigate bird painting to crea...
Lawrence Asher Gallery: Bryan Ricci – Nature Hates Calculators and Jennifer Beedon Snow - Dwelling
Using a meticulous application of oil paint droplets, Bryan Ricci constructs hyper-real creatures that rise from the panel surface. A natural background created from his color photography provides the natural habitat.
The generous brush stroke...
Franklin H Williams Caribbean Cultural Center: Ancestors & Orishas: Glass & Mixed Media Sculptures Tracing African Roots by David Medina
David’s work includes references to African masked costumes like Nigerian egungun, Dominican diablo cojuelos, science fiction, and pioneering educational shows like Sesame Street with a special fondness for the pop icon Big Bird. “Although the rel...
South Tipperary Arts Centre: No Flight Plan: Ciara Foster
Ciara Foster is a Visual Artist. She completed a first class honours degree in design at NCAD, where she specialised in embroidered textiles and a Masters in Design also at NCAD. She has exhibited in many group exhibitions both within Ireland and ...
Sasol Art Museum, University of Stellenbosch: The Animal in Art
Items from the Hugh Solomon collection that highlight some of the zoological expeditions undertaken between 1655 and 1949 can be viewed in the Africana Room. Similarly the journals of early travellers, e.g. Kolbe, Le Valiant, William Paterson and...
US Art Gallery: Keith Dietrich: Horizons of Babel
The site of the project is located on a semicircle between Cape Columbine on the West Coast of the Cape, and Cape Agulhas, with the centre falling on the hill Babelonstoring in the vicinity of Paarl / Franschhoek / Stellenbosch. Seven co-ordinate...
Oakville Galleries: Peter MacCallum: Larus Delawarensis
The subject of Peter MacCallum’s exhibition at Oakville Galleries is a series of photographs documenting the Ring-billed Gull, or Larus Delawarensis, a common, familiar, and often ignored bird species. Rather than see the birds as garbage-eating p...
Independencia Shopping Galleria: Max Tolentino: Lines in Space
What fascinates me is the exercise of art; it is doing something that can express my personal point of view of things and the perception and the expression of the world as I see. Anything that carries human significance may cause me an emotion w...
Gallery 1114, a contemporary artists cooperative: WHERE IN THE WORLD IS THE WIRRAL
The Gallery will also be showing the dolls of California artist, Sara Austin. Austin's dolls, have shown in museums and galleries across the United States. She has been published in several magazines, and has taught doll-making for several years. ...
San Bernardino County Museum, Fisk Gallery: The Duck Stamp Competition
Public awareness that waterfowl
populations were threatened led
Congress to enact the Migratory Bird
Conservation Act in 1929. This law
was largely symbolic, since it
contained no fu...
Aron Packer Gallery: Natural History: Group Show
Aron Packer Gallery is pleased to present a small survey of some of the artists working in relation to this genre locally, nationally, and internationally.
The gallery transforms into a curiosity cabinet of its own, finding connections and relati...
City Gallery: BILL HAMMOND
23 Big Pictures
Hammond's work tackles social and environmental issues, conveying messages
about humanity and its status as an endangered species. He first attracted
a...
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art: Once Upon A Time: Contemporary Art for Children's Books
Featuring original artwork
created by popular
contemporary artists Keith
Haring, Fai...
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